Trump's controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily allow mass layoffs at the Education Department marked the latest in a string of rulings from the high court green-lighting the president’s plans to scale down the size of the federal workforce.Permitting the termination of about 1,400 Education Department employees is one of several instances of the Supreme Court showing significant deference to Trump's power over the executive branch. In other cases, the high court has preliminarily approved of Trump's executive order calling for sweeping federal job cuts and shown an openness to the president dimin